Nature can be very dramatic. In the animal kingdom, life-and-death scenarios are always just around the corner. Even just a casual stroll with the herd can turn deadly in the blink of an eye.
The wolves had got the bison on the run and the process of singling out a target had begun. All the while both species galloped through the deep snow relentlessly While I watched, mesmerised ...
Perched above Hayden Valley, they watched as the Wapiti Lake wolf pack pursued a herd of bison, sprinting through deep snow. The wolves closed the gap, and then pounced — separating a bison cow ...
The link between wolves, bison, and Native Americans; as well as white man's reasoning behind their determination to eliminate bison and wolves from the landscape.
A herd of bison (not the one pictured here) charged into a crowd of people in Yellowstone National Park. Photo by Tevin Trinh via Unsplash A pack of wolves took down a bison in Yellowstone ...
Mark Hebblewhite is a professor of ungulate habitat ecology at the University of Montana. He and the University’s W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation have collaborated with the ...
We did wolf extermination with a vengeance," said Smith. But attitudes began to change in the 1980s. Elk and bison populations increased dramatically because there was no natural predator to keep ...
In Yellowstone, tourists are responsible for their own safety, and regulations stipulate that visitors must stay at least 25 yards from bison and elk, and 100 yards from bears and wolves.
a good look or photo of a wolf, grizzly — or especially an elusive wolverine or lynx — makes for a good day in the field. A glimpse of the white bison calf would be the privilege of a lifetime.
Snow crunched underfoot as Mark Hebblewhite scanned the ridgelines of Canada’s Banff National Park. It was 1995, and the young biologist, fresh out of undergrad, was trailing one of the park’s most ...